jel-organizing-framework
Use when imposing an analytical structure or taxonomy on a literature for a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) survey — the "spine" that turns a reading list into an argument about the field. Designs the framework; it does not gather the literature (jel-literature-synthesis) or judge balance (jel-comprehensiveness-and-balance).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jel-organizing-framework --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Organizing Framework — the Survey's Spine (jel-organizing-framework) ## When to trigger - The evidence matrix is built but the draft would read like a list of papers - Sections are named after topics ("Empirical studies", "Theoretical work") rather than ideas - A reader could not predict what comes next or why papers are grouped as they are - You cannot state in one sentence the *argument* the survey makes about the field ## Why the spine is the whole game at JEL The single most-cited reason JEL surveys fail is that they are **annotated bibliographies**: paper-after-paper summaries with no organizing idea. A great JEL survey **imposes a structure the field did not have** — a taxonomy, a unifying framework, a sequence of questions, or a simple model — that makes scattered work legible. The framework is the contribution; the citations are the evidence. Choose the spine deliberately: | Spine type | Organizes the field by | Best when | |-----------|------------------------|-----------| | **Taxonomy** | mutually-exclusive categories of mechanism/approach | the field is fragmented into incommensurable camps | | **Unifying model** | a simple framework whose parameters index the studies
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- Why the spine is the whole game at JEL
- The test of a good framework
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What does the jel-organizing-framework skill do?
Use when imposing an analytical structure or taxonomy on a literature for a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) survey — the "spine" that turns a reading list into an argument about the field. Designs the framework; it does not gather the literature (jel-literature-synthesis) or judge balance (jel-comprehensiveness-and-balance).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jel-organizing-framework --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.